Market concentration and political participation of enterprise
Abstract：This paper proposes that political help will bring enterprise a higher income,of course,the enterprise must pay for the political help to government,therefore,the enterprise will be based on the profit maximization purpose to do political participation and obtain political help.So,in the process of political participation,what kind market concentration will impact the political participation? In this paper,we use a Cournot model to analyze this problem,and the conclusion is the higher market concentration the more political participation by enterprise.Then,we used the industry lobbying costs and market concentration data of United States to do an empirical research,and the results support the theory model conclusion.
Keywords：market concentrationpolitical participationlobby cost
Publication Date：2012-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 376-380 )